The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquid \Liq"uid\ (l[i^]k"w[i^]d), a. [L. liquidus, fr. liquere to be fluid or liquid; cf. Skr. r[=i] to ooze, drop, l[=i] to melt.]
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Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Yea, though he go upon the plane and liquid water which will receive no step.
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(Physics) Being in such a state that the component molecules move freely among themselves, but have a definite volume changing only slightly with changes of pressure, and do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do when the volume of the container is increased; neither solid nor gaseous; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
Note: Liquid substances may form a definite interface with gases, whereas the molecules of different gases freely intermingle with each other.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. ``Liquid melody.''
--Crashaw.Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
Clear; definite in terms or amount. [Obs.] ``Though the debt should be entirely liquid.''
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(Finance) In cash or readily convertible into cash without loss of principle; -- said of assets, such as bank accounts, or short-term bonds tradable on a major stock exchange.
Liquid glass. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Wiktionary
n. water glass
Usage examples of "liquid glass".
One had been filled with a liquid glass cleaner and the other with a spot remover for use on carpets and upholstery.
These glimpses of darkness, swells, and eddies of liquid glass whetted the Nameless One's tongue.
In Rose's hands a punty iron tipped with semi liquid glass had been literally a lethal weapon, and it had seemed to me that as it was me she was after, however weird and mistaken her beliefs, it was I who ought to stop her.
And he found he could see into the wall now, as if it had turned to liquid glass.
Another twirled a big glob of liquid glass at the end of a tube, spinning it round and round to form a flat whirling disk that turned solid as it thinned and cooled, a window destined for homes far away from here.
She thought about the creatures living in Long Lake, translucent things hard to see, seeming almost made of liquid glass, or of the water that was their home, with whom she had never spoken, but whom she had watched emerge at night to bask in the moonlight on rock and shore.
The liquid glass poured down the wall and melded with the floor as it quickly cooled.
Mounted in liquid glass, unable to breathe, was he to make back-and-forth forever, biting at mosquitoes?
Everything was thin and tall as if extended like a piece of liquid glass.